The first stanza of Countee Cullen’s “A Brown Girl Dead” reads: “With two white roses on her breasts,/White candles at head and feet,/Dark Madonna of the grave she rests;/Lord Death has found her sweet.” Which of the following statements accurately characterizes these lines ?

• A. These lines evoke Christian imagery to emphasize the dignity of the girl who died.
• B. These lines evoke Christian imagery to suggest that death erases racial divisions.
• C. These lines present the problem of racial prejudice in an ironic mode.
• D. Both A and B